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STEPHEN CHARNOCK

ENGLISH PURITAN PRESBYTERIAN CLERGYMAN

STEPHEN CHARNOCK
1628 - July 27, 1680

Son of a London solicitor, he was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and in 1649 became a minister in Southwark. In 1650 he became a fellow of New College,Oxford and in 1652 received his M.A. 1655 he was appointed chaplain to Henry Cromwell, governor of Ireland, and won a reputation for preaching in Dublin. He returned to London in retirement, but from 1675 he ministered in Bishopgate Street Prebyterian Church, London as joint pastor with Thomas Watson. His sermons were published mostly after his death; they reflect the characteristic Puritan divine's concern for central Gospel themes; the most important work was entitled Existence and Attributes of God.

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"A Discourse On The Cleansing Virtue Of Christ's Blood" Part 1
"A Discourse On The Cleansing Virtue Of Christ's Blood" Part 2
"His sonship makes his blood valuable. It is blood, and so agreeable to the law in the penalty; it is the blood of the Son of God, and therefore acceptable to the lawgiver in its value. Though it was the blood of the humanity, yet the merit of it was derived from the divinity. It is not his blood as he was the son of the virgin, but his blood as he was the Son of God, which had this sovereign virtue."
"A Discourse Upon The Fifth Of November"
On God As A Deliverer
"The time of the church's depression is the time of God's exaltation. He waits for the extremity to lift up himself. When paleness is upon the face of his people, when the cedars of Lebanon hang their heads, when the church's beauty seems a lamentable deformity, and Sharon is like a wilderness, then will God arise, Isa. 33:9, 10. God never builds up Sion, but he ordains all things in a method for his appearance in the greatest glory: Ps. 102:16, 'When the Lord shall build up Sion, he shall appear in his glory,' that is, when the church is destitute, ver.17."

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